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31.07.2009 Loss and Liberty, a new collection of ceramic artworks and poems produced by offenders at Wandsworth Prison, is on display in the Docklands Museum's London Sugar & Slavery gallery.

30.07.2009 Childsong is a short film about the African Academy in Clapham, a school started in 1790 by Zachary Macaulay, a prominet campaigner for the abolition of slavery.

29.07.2009 It’s certainly a good idea: 56 years after the newly-crowned Queen Elizabeth’s six-month, 45,000 mile royal tour – still the most ambitious ever undertaken – Kwame Kwei-Armah retraces her journey to see what it meant, then and now. The question is: does On Tour With The Queen make good TV?

28.07.2009 "Why don't you just sing jazz?" is a celebration of the black opera singers of the 20th century – their lives, their art and the barriers they overcame to succeed.

28.07.2009 Sex trafficking - the subject of a photographic exhibition in London - may double in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics, say the organisers.

27.07.2009 Campaigner Bianca Jagger and musician Nitin Sawhney will stand alongside indigenous activist Sitaram Kulisika of India's Khondh people at British mining company Vedanta's AGM today to protest against a proposal to open a massive bauxite mine on their spiritual homeland.
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26.07.2009 An overwhelming welcome in Nepal awaited Gurkha champion and actress Joanna Lumley, who has headed the campaign to enable Gurkha veterans to have the right to settle in Britain.

26.07.2009 Profane, rude, blasphemous, direct, mischievous - Kureishi's back: “There are times when we can be too respectful to one another and that can be dangerous.”

24.07.2009 Repeated protests by indigenous people in Orissa, India, have blocked the mining plans of one of Britain’s biggest companies, leading to a costly delay.

20.07.2009 Migrants and asylum-seekers have become the most dehumanised group of people in Britain, says human rights activist Shami Chakrabarti in a message of support for the organisation Bail for Immigration Detainees.

19.07.2009 A measure of the Tory Party's move to the centre ground is its commitment to maintain Labour's aid budget. Duncan Green reviews a policy discussion document. From Poverty to Power

19.07.2009 George Monbiot gets to grips with the mathematics of offsetting greenhouse gas emissions. He concludes that the approach does not add up and that governments cannot fudge their commitments with offsets. Monbiot.com

17.07.2009 The UK’s leading supermarkets have cut the number of single-use carrier bags used by 48 per cent, it was announced today.

17.07.2009 British foreign secretary David Miliband is today accused of risking civilian lives in Afghanistan by allowing UK private military companies to regulate themselves.

17.07.2009 Legalisation of the sex industry in Britain and the provision of legal of reducing their potential vulnerability to exploitation, suggests new research.

15.07.2009 Kew Gardens is celebrating its Millennium Seed Bank partnership with a summer exhibition – Banking on Life – consisting of a mix of art installations, interactive displays, photography and inspiring stories.

15.07.2009 The UN and India’s National Human Rights Committee have been asked to stop a controversial bauxite mine in India.

11.07.2009 Professor Paul Collier's ideas about prioritising aid for governance and security in post-conflict states have strongly influenced the latest UK government proposals. US commentators are less convinced. Boston Review

11.07.2009 The UK is now the world's third largest aid donor. This makes the plans for new priorities all the more controversial. IRIN News

09.07.2009 The Yes Men, two US filmmakers whose funny but alarming documentary feature is to be released in UK cinemas next month, are to bring the plight of the people of Bhopal to the West by dispensing Bhopal drinking water to Londoners on 13 July.